Speaking of Tim Buckley without falling into rhetoric or already heard, is not an easy task. I wanted to, here, consider his first masterpiece (and Buckley's masterpiece has made five, three of which are among the greatest of all rock), "Goodbye and Hello" , his second album released from ' Elektra in 1967, when Buckley was just twenty years. His talent was discovered in 1966 by producer Paul Rotchild (who also discovered the Doors and many other artists that led to Elektra), which are produced in the same year homonymous album that showed only part of the great 
potential of its author (the disc contains beautiful songs, but suffer from some of the arrangements' standard, although well made, of Jack Nitzsche). "Goodbye and Hello" shows an author already incredibly ripe to be made by a little more than a teenager. We note first of all the great
introversion background, which contrasts with the beautiful smiling face of Tim depicted on both sides of the cover. The anti-militarist No Man Can Find The War introduces us into his inner world, which in hindsight, has little in common with most of the freaks and hippies of the time. Tim was un'introverso apart from that type of current youth, even if they reflected
many moods. His vocal style and his voice was starting to take on the characteristics that make then known to posterity, or a voice of great experimentation commitment stretched to nearly an 'anxiety about the search for new forms of timbre and expressive. The disc continues with a wide range of styles and influences, from vaudeville circus Carnival Song the country-rock elegy Once I Was , the funeral Pleasant Street (the unforgettable verse in which Buckley sings: " down, down, down ..." down, down, down, fino agli abissi più profondi ) alla veemente I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain , che apriva il lato B del disco. Sono però almeno quattro i capolavori che svettano sugli altri: la
stupenda elegia Phantasmagoria In Two , forse la più bella canzone d’amore di tutti i tempi il cui testo è davvero alta poesia, la conclusiva e struggente Morning Glory (coverizzata vent’anni dopo dai This Mortal Coil ), la psichedelia finissima di Hallucinations , in cui il suo stile si avvicina addirittura saudade and to the long and orchestrated Goodbye and Hello , which basically includes two sections of tracks in a single body, as if Buckley had a dialogue with his alter ego. not had much commercial success of the album, as it was in fact predictable and Buckley began to have serious drug problems (in fact he died young in 1975 because of an overdose) and only with the help of his friend Frank Zappa , who believed in him much as a musician and as a man, there could be short (in the 1969/1971 biennium) to achieve his greatest masterpieces that will touch one of the highest peaks of rock, but that's another history and needs another review.
Leonardo Di Maio
Knight-Errant Tim Buckley
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